Neriman Newbie
Chapter 6
Kodachi Instanity Kuno
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I won't write a disclaim cause I can't think of anything funny enough for it.
"I've saved my favorite group for last. The maniacs and crazy people, yeah, the ones who live out where the buses don't run. And I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people. A maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a bugs bunny suit at the time. So you can't put all of them away, y'know, ya gotta keep some of them around just for the entertainment. Like a guy who tells you the king of Sweden is using his penis as a radio transmitter to send anti-semitic lesbian meatloaf recipies to soupy sales at Marm and Hamlish. A guy like that you wanna give him his own radio show!" - George Carlin
Notes: [] Denotes the ye olde english language.
** Denotes signs, if there are any.
{} Denotes thought. All thought is conducted in the person native language, so I read someone else's mind, they better think in english.
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"A substitute?"
"Yes, I injured myself. This girl will take my place." Akane replied to Kodachi, pointing at Ranma. Jason had come to St. Bacchus, but he ran when he thought he saw Kodachi. Luckily the pressure point Jason had used only temporarily put Ranma to sleep.
"Ah yes. The pigtailed girl. We have met before have we not?" Kodachi said then held out her hand. "May the best girl win."
"Hold it." Akane said as she grabbed Kodachi's hand. Turning her palm upwards revealed the tacks inbetween her fingers.
"Oh, how did those tacks get inbetween my fingers?" Kodachi said wonderingly.
"Wow. Can't let your guard down for a minute around her." Jason said as he met Ranma and Akane in the change room.
"Hm? Where did these come from Jason?" Akane asked as she noticed a bouquet of roses lying on the desk.
"I dunno. I didn't notice them."
Akane picked up one of the roses and put it in the fish tank that was in the room. The fish rose to the top of the tank and seemed to be sleeping.
"I'll have to remember that trick. It's the second time she's used it." Jason commented.
"You said those roses weren't there before right?" Ranma asked.
Jason nodded his head. "Yeah, I didn't see them when I came in... which means..."
"Jason-sama!!" Kodachi cheered as she dropped down from the top of a group of lockers.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Jason screamed as he barreled through the door.
"You're sure this is St. Bacchus school for girls? Absolutely no doubt?"
"A... absolutely."
"I made it, I made it and I didn't get lost. This MUST be a turning point in my life. For the first time-" Ryoga was stalled in his lamenting as he heard a cowardly scream come from his right.
"SAAAAVVVEEE MEEEE!!!" Jason shouted as Kodachi jumped off the roof and tried to grab hold of Jason using her whip.
Ryoga reacted fast. Not just fast, SUPA FAST! In less than an instant he'd whipped a bandanna off his head, began to twirl it, and threw it with unerring accuracy.
The bandanna flew straight and true. Jason saw it coming and dived to the ground, he'd been crippled long enough! The bandanna flew over Jason, cutting the end of the ribbon off, then it came back, and cut more off the ribbon off, then again, and again, and again, until there was very little ribbon left.
Jason got off the ground and brushed himself off then looked at all the ribbon shards on the ground. He looked at Ryoga with wide eyes. "Ryoga, you've helped me for once!"
Obviously the words might have been better chosen as he didn't seem to happy about the comment. "Don't expect it to happen again."
"Aw come on Ryoga I didn't mean it like- AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Jason began apologetically then began to scream as Kodachi landed infront of him with another ribbon.
Jason's chances to run were dashed as Kodachi easily had the advantage of range. The ribbon lashed out and wrabbed around Jason's arms and upper body. He was trapped. Kodachi pulled him close and held out a bouquet of roses to his face. Jason tried to turn his face from the Black Roses of Certain Doom but to little avail as the cloud burst out and enveloped his face. He quickly began to cough and wheeze as he took in the horrible smell, then his body fell limp. "SOMEBODY HELP ME!!"
To Jason's happiness, sanity, and all around betterment something flashed infront of his face and cut the new ribbon in two and then something hit Kodachi on the head knocking her out. Jason wanted to say 'Ryoga! You saved me!' But it came out more like, "Mrph, hrp hrph mrph."
Ryoga stood straight over Jason and looked down on him. "That should make us even." He stated evenly and then waited for a response. "Are you even gonna say anything?" The only response he got was a loud strangled noise that Jason made. Not quite sure what to make of it Ryoga knelt down and unwrapped the ribbons from around Jason. "Now are you gonna talk to me?" Ryoga demanded annoyed.
Jason responded by twitching an arm. Ryoga did not look happy.
Ranma and Akane stood at their end of the arena. Kodachi was late, very late. Way too late. Five minutes late. "Due to the St. Bacchus schools absence of team members we have no choice but to award Furinkan High winner by default!" The judges finally said.
"That took long enough." Ranma muttered and got out of the ring. "Guess I should thank Jason for keeping her occupied. Weapons are cheap."
"Let's not dwell on it." Akane replied, she may have been happy that they won. But she had wanted to see Kodachi get punted around like a rag doll. Even if it was Ranma who was doing it.
Just as Ranma and Akane were about to reach the door Ryoga burst through. "That only took me one minute... It's a miracle!" He cried to himself.
Instantly both Ranma and Akane went into fighting stances and both noticed the large body slung over Ryoga's shoulder. "J-Jason!" Akane said and rushed over to Ryoga. Ryoga slid Jason off of his shoulder and into Akane's arms. "What did you do Ryoga?" Ranma demanded still in an offensive stance.
Ryoga snorted but stood still. "I saved him from a fate that I probably would never wish upon another person no matter how much I hated them." He said evenly.
"Huh?" Ranma replied confused.
"Can you move Jason?" Akane asked, now having propped him up against a wall.
"Rrrgh."
Shaking his head Ryoga began an explanation. "When I found him he was being chased by that Black Rose woman. She tied him up and almost managed to drag him away before I cut him loose and knocked her out."
"YOU WHAT?!" A bunch of people screamed. All eyes turned towards the mat in the middle of the arena as the cover flew off and a group of girls in leotards rose from under the fighting area. "You knocked out our leader just before a fight?! That's dirty and underhanded."
"So is attacking the opposing team before a match!! And hiding under the arena mat!!" The actual Furinkan Rythimic Gymnastics Team retorted from the stands.
The trio of true fighters all sweatdropped as the arena broke into an all out war. "Perhaps we can argue somewhere else?" Ryoga suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." Ranma agreed. He thought he'd seen a kettle of water lying around somewhere.
Quickly they retreated to the Furinkan changing room so that Ranma could get his clothes back and change back to his boy form while Ryoga explained in more detail what happened.
"So Kodachi drugged him?"
"Best guess I could come up with."
"The only person I can think of to take him to would be Dr. Tofu. But I'm not sure if even he can do anything about this." Akane muttered.
While the conversation continued, Jason's finger twitched slightly. Then it twitched again. Finally he managed to move both his arms. {Yes! YES! It's wearing off!} Jason had been trying to use a couple of the healing techniques he'd been learning from Tofu but he'd been unable to concentrate properly for some reason. But now they seemed to be working. His legs began to move from under him and he began to stand up straight, although sluggishly.
"Yeah. Dr. Tofu does seem to be the best choice, we should get him there now." Ranma agreed.
"A heh. Don't worry guys, I think it's passed through my system now." Jason said then stretched. {That's lasting stuff. I still feel stiff, and my body feels all weird again. Like it ain't mine.} The three Japanese citizens turned towards Jason then recoiled in surprise. "What? I'm not turning a weird color am I?" Jason asked worried. {It couldn't be that easy.}
"A Youkai?" Ryoga wondered aloud. "In the city?"
"Youkai?" Jason echoed looking left and right. "Where? I don't see one." He stated then crossed his arms across his chest. "Now the hell are you guys trying to pull on me? Youkai don't exist!" There was a long silence then. Ranma had moved into an attack stance a while ago, Akane had picked up a chair, and Ryoga had leveled his umbrella. "Uh, guys? It's me? Jason? The big white haired Canadian? Remember me?" He said and took a step forwards.
"Stay back!" Akane shouted, but Jason no longer seemed preoccupied with them.
Something felt weird when he took that one step, something just wasn't right... and that something felt like it was just above his ass. Slowly Jason looked over his shoulder down at his backside. Strangely enough, there was a black and white stripped tail sticking out from just above his belt. "[What the fuck?]" Jason muttered then looked down at his front. Half expecting seeing something TOTALLY out of place like a pair of breasts or maybe even a new head coming off his chest. Well, he was disappointed in that respect. All he did have was rather furry looking arms and clawed fingers. Oh, and he couldn't even see his knees. {Huh?!} He leaned down a little bit further to see that his knees now bent backwards like a quadrapeds do.
There was a knock at the door and Jason felt an ear on top of his head twitch, he reached up and felt it. It was very real, and very attached to his head. Feeling his teeth he also came across a rather sharp quartet of fangs in his mouth, two for each row of teeth. "[This... this ain't right.]"
"Is anyone still in there?" A voice called into the locker room from the outside.
"Yeah we're still in here? What is it?" Ryoga called out to the door.
"We thought we heard a shout in there."
"Oh! Don't worry about that, I was just a little angry about the match!" Akane called back. "I was hoping to see Kodachi lose in an embarrasing defeat!" She clarified.
They all waited a few seconds so that the people outside would leave. "I swear to god guys I don't know what's going on!" Jason explained quickly.
"I thought you hadn't ever gone to Jyusenkyo." Akane commented.
"Never. And it wasn't cold or hot water that did this anyways, last time I actually touched water was when I showered this morning." Jason replied looking down at his hands for a second then looked back up. "Uh... is something wrong Ranma? Aside from me?"
Ranma, in the back of the room, cowering against the wall, shook his head. "No... nothing at all... you just, kinda, sorta, maybe, look like a c-c-cat!"
"Y'know what? He's right. You kind of remind of one of those large felines you see in Africa and Asia. And you're growing taller Jason." Ryoga said analytically. After all, what did a Hibiki have to fear from an anthromorph?
Jason straightened his legs and looked up at the roof, he noted with some intrest how his nose seemed only a foot from the roof now. Looking back to his asian friends he did notice they seemed a bit smaller and lower than before. "Well this is just great! How am I supposed to get out of here like this?!" He muttered and scratched an itch on his side carefully.
Everyone looked around the room. Akane and Ryoga searching for something to throw over Jason. Ranma was looking for a place to run to, the way Jason's ears were changing to be more triangular was scary. "Wait, I think I might have an idea."
An hour later, at the Tendo Dojo.
"Great idea Akane. If only you'd remembered to check around the corner before telling me to go!"
"Hey! We got you out, and no one figured out who you were!"
"But everyone has a damn good idea! Either Ranma or me and Ranma is neither white nor a cat!" Jason shouted then calmed himself down quickly. "Ah don't worry about it. I shouldn't be taking this out on you." He amended then paused for a second. {Why am I suddenly being nice?} "This is only getting weirder the more I think on it."
"How so?"
"It's my body more than anything. I'm walking around like this. I shouldn't know how to use these legs at all. My senses are sharper, and all the intake is easily absorbed. I can even consciously move my tail however I want it to and that shouldn't be possible." Jason explained carefully. He then ruffled his hair frustrated. "And this itch is killing me!"
"Then stop scratching your head and scratch the itch!" Ryoga stated annoyed.
Jason didn't do anything immediately except for look at his new nails. The itch was bad... bad enough that if he did start scratching he might scratch hard enough to cut himself wide open before he noticed. "Rgh... could someone just get Dr. Tofu down here? He's the only guy that can help with this!"
"Being that he'll most definately meet Kasumi on the way in... no, he won't help you with this." Ranma replied from far behind Jason.
Everyone in the room sighed. "Guess I'll just have to think this out then." Jason muttered to himself and reached under his shirt. Quickly he drew his fingernails across his left side to relieve his itch. His eyes quickly widened as he caught on to what he just did and his shirt quickly stained. "[Ah shit!!]" he shouted and took the shirt off quickly so that it wouldn't get any worse. He pulled at the skin so that the cuts were more easily seen. "That's why I didn't scratch it Ryoga!"
Akane and Ryoga leaned close to get a better look at the cuts. "Those look deep Jason. Maybe we should try to get Dr. Tofu down here."
Jason waved them away. "Don't worry about it. As I've said, I've been taking lessons from Dr. Tofu. I can heal this easy." Jason said then closed his eyes and focused his slightly sharpened mind and his very focused senses. Directing the flow of Ki through his body. Something wasn't quite right though....
"C-c-c-cat!" Ranma cried from the back of the Dojo.
Akane and Ryoga looked up from the cuts on Jason's side to see a rather unusual sight going on above them. Inside a swirling cloud of bluish white energy there were two figure's fighting each other. One was a rather well defined feline human (It looked like Jason did now) made up totally of black energy, fighting with a slightly shorter just as dark, just as unusually distinguished human figure with pointed ears and blood red eyes. Despite the fact that both figures were totally black the bluish white energies swirling around them seemed to illuminate every feature perfectly so that every single detail could be seen in... well, perfect detail. The swirling cloud of Ki raised a powerful cold wind that caressed the room and everyone in it, and began spinning so fast that wind almost seemed to be pulling everyone in.
"Somethings... not... right...." Jason spoke in a whisper as the two black figures raged just overtop of him in what seemed to be a fight to the death.
"We've got to do something!" Ryoga shouted over the sound of the winds and leaning away from the raging forces.
"Like what?!" Akane shouted back. "We don't even know what's going on!"
"I... don't... know... what... to do...." Jason muttered to himself. "I... feel... so empty?"
The humanoid figure raised it's arms high above it's head, it's hands clenched together, and brought them down on the feline just as the feline rose with a powerful uppercut. Both figure's struck at the same time and both seemed to be momentarily stunned.
"Jason! Try to take control! Force it all under your command!" Ryoga shouted.
"I... can't.... It's too... unfamiliar." Jason mumbled. Then his eyes snapped open and he seemed to grasp hold of the situation with a clear mind. "[Holy shit!]" He shouted and stood up, putting his upper body completely into the cloud of energy. "Improvise..."
The cold winds died down instantly and the swirling display was gone. However, the two black figures were still there, standing on either side of Jason. Now though, almost nothing could be distinguished about either in anywhere near the quality it had once been. Quickly Jason backed away as the two figures began to battle again.
"Wh-what happened?" Akane asked bewildered, her hair and clothing a mess.
"I... I'm not too sure really. I suddenly woke up like from a dream and saw all this above me."
"Should we stop this?" Ryoga asked and took a ready stance.
"No. Hold on here, their forms are changing." Jason observed.
Slowly the fight changed form. As did the fighters. The feline one's body finally became overbalanced from the change and had to drop down on all fours and began to get itself some color. Whereas the red eyed one stayed upright but became more menacing in appearance and combat by gaining some less than human features, for example two large wings, and it also began getting itself some color.
"Uh... Ryoga? Do you have some extra pants by any chance?" Jason asked just as Akane began to turn away. The one with wings was still human, infact it bore an uncanny resemblance to Jason, and it apparently did not spawn from him with clothing.
Ryoga swiftly rummaged through his giant pack and tossed a pair of his loosest fitting pants to Jason, who in turn tossed them to the winged figure. "Don't interupt...." The winged figure began to shout until it saw just who threw the pants at him. The kitty also seemed to take notice of Jason as he stood on the sidelines. "I'm... we're...." The winged man seemed dumbstruck. "Out?"
"Mrrow?" The big white siberian tiger mrowed looking around at the Dojo's occupants.
The winged man quickly put the offered pants on, quickly discovering that they barely fit him. "Alright... I'm somewhat decent. You can dare to look at me now Akane."
Akane turned around and glared at the occupants in the middle of the room. "What are you two? And what are you doing here? Isn't that Neko-san?"
The winged man scratched his head. "Y'know what? I thought Jason would have asked all that first. But yeah...." He trailed off.
"Feel free to give us some form of enlightenment as to this situation at any time." Jason urged comically.
The winged man looked around the room. "Can I eat something first?"
Luckily as Jason saw it. Nabiki, Soun, and Genma were not at the Tendo residence at that time. So the only people who saw the winged man and the big tiger were him, Ranma, Akane, Ryoga, and Kasumi, who was kind enough to make a quick snack for the famished winged man with blood red eyes who preferred meat.
"Start talking." Jason said sitting down at the table as the winged man ate.
The winged man turned to the tiger first. "Go play with Kasumi." The tiger seemed to understand this and took no time at all to leave the room. "Now then.... Hm... how to explain this.... Well, they say the direct approach is the best, although I must wonder who 'they' is, so I'll start with this. I'm Jason's Demon Aspect."
"My WHAT?!"
"Oh come on! You guys haven't picked up on the eyes at ALL?! I'm a demon, a youkai, anything that represents evil but not total evil. Like devils." The demon said as it dug into some fish.
"Why is a part of me a demon?"
"Simple. Before you were born. Hell, before your parents met, your mom got together with a Youkai and made a pact with it. Thus giving all her sons demonic powers. I am your demonic powers."
"So Jason is a hanyou or something?" Ryoga piped up.
"No." Youkai-san stated pointing at Ryoga. "He is totally human, just with Youki."
Jason looked considerably angry now. "So... this is... MOM'S fault now is it?" His voice holding consideralbe danger to it.
The demon looked at Jason worriedly. "Leave it Jason, there are reasons. Don't any of you ask."
"Alright then, what happened to Jason when he was in the Dojo?" Ranma asked.
Youkai-san took a deep breath. "Due to a mixture of the Crazy Bitches poison and then trying to gather his Ki when it messed it all up, caused him to accidentally bring out Neko-sans transformation. Just not as powerful as it should be, so he didn't change as fast as he should. As for the raging battle? Jason tried using his Ki again while it was still distorted and I tried to repress the transformation causing a raging battle for control of Jason's Ki between me and Neko-san.... And how we're here now... I'm still working that part out."
"Uh... okay... and just what is Neko-san? Another part of me that MOM put in? And just what are we gonna call you?" Jason questioned.
"Just call me Youkai for now I suppose. I like the Japanese word better than demon. And as for Neko-san? Check that bite mark on your left side." Youkai-san said pointing at Jason's side.
Jason muttered something as he looked down at his exposed chest and saw that the scar on his side was now gone. "Wh-wha?"
"And your hair."
Everyone now noted that Jason's hair was a rather dark shade of brown, which Akane and Ranma recognised as his natural hair color. Ryoga didn't quite make that connection. "It's back to the way it was before... so?"
Youkai's head hit the table and made the fish and his plate rattle. When his head came back up his dark red eyes that had no pupils far as anyone could tell attempted to bore in Jason's skull. "Lycanthrope! Ly-can-thro-pe! He's a Were-tiger! Like a Were-wolf, but a feline instead of a canine. Figure it out genius! What the hell kind of tiger do you think bit you in the park a couple months ago!" Youkai explained annoyed.
Everyone was stunned to silence. Those dark eyes returned to their natural 'not trying to bore through your skull' state and seemed more relaxed. "Any other questions Jason? We don't know when this might be undone."
"I... I... uh... how the hell am I gonna explain this everyone else?" Jason wondered.
"Listen Jason. I know you're worried about what everyone is going to think about you so I promise you that I won't do anything to disturb your social life while I've got my own body."
Ranma and Ryoga's eyes narrowed. "You're a youkai, why should he trust you? Real youkai murder rape and pillage wherever they go." Ranma stated.
Once again Youkai's head hit the table. "You people... by the Nine Rings of Hell and the Thirteenth Floor! Not all youkai are evil as everyone thinks. You're just like Jason's MOM for screaming in pain. I'm gonna key you all, and Jason, in to something important." Youkai said and motioned for everyone to get in closer. "Jason's MOM thought that all youkai murder rape and pillage just as you do. And y'know what that got him?"
"A life full of beatings and general mistreatment that should have had her thrown in jail for life?" Jason finished.
"Well.... Yeah. Although the thing is I think you would have had to put up with that one way or the other. But you just got it worse than you would have had she not made the pact. The point was, she decided to give him a kind of trigger to really set him off at a moments notice. The best thing she could think of was, well, women." Youkai explained.
Jason's head fell into his hands as he thought of everything his MOM put him through. Beatings left and right, repeatedly taking him to Women's Lib meetings where some of the women proved to be just as chauvenistic as the men they hated so much. They certainly had no problem with helping her beat the crap out of him some more.
Akane seemed to amazed at all of this. "That's a horrible thing to say! Surely his mother can't be all that bad. No one could treat their children like that!" She protested.
"You don't know her." Both Jason and Youkai said in unison. "I shared 'all' of his beatings. Frankly her plan would have worked if not for the one time when Jason was ten years old-"
"Don't talk about that!" Jason cut off vehemantly. "Don't you ever tell anyone about that!"
"Alright." Youkai said, holding up his hands defensively. "I won't tell anyone that doesn't already know."
"ANYONE!"
"...okay."
"So... you're not evil then?" Ranma guessed once Jason and Youkai were quiet again.
The demon nodded his head slightly. "For the most part. I was driven to hate so badly that I just gave up on it at one point. Now I usually just sit in Jason's mind content to watch what he does and make subtle changes in there to make him a better person in the long run."
Jason looked even more angry than he did a second ago. "You mean-"
Youkai raised a hand to cut Jason off. "You remember Mary from last year? The woman you almost punched in the face cause she made a joke about you being gay? I'm the only reason she can still breathe through her nose." Jason quickly seemed to become ashamed at that. "Anyways, the key here is that I'm not all that bad, I'm more on the level of a human than a demon in terms of how evil I am."
"Even if you aren't evil or bad like you say you are. How are we supposed to convince anyone of that?" Akane demanded.
Youkai seemed to think of that for a few seconds, which drew on to a minute. "I'll think of something, if anyone does ask then just back me up."
"How are you gonna explain your appearance?" Jason wondered. He didn't need anyone thinking he was a bloody demon!
"As I said, I'll come up with something. Don't worry." Youkai reassured.
At that moment they heard the front door open and three people walk in. "We're home!" Nabiki called into the house.
"Oh My God!! Kasumi be careful! Daddy will save you!" Soun shouted almost right away.
Youkai smacked his forehead. "I totally forgot about Neko-san. No one else has seen him except us!" He said. "Ah well, I suppose Kasumi can handle that."
"Are you sure it's safe for Kasumi to be near Neko-san?"
Youkai waved his hand and shook his head. "No problem what-so-ever! He's harmless. As long as no one provokes him he won't be a problem."
"HYAH!" Soun shouted then a feline roar cried out.
"[Oh shit.]"
"Father! Leave Neko-san alone!" Kasumi admonished from the kitchen. "Don't you worry Neko-san, I won't let father hurt you."
"B-but?"
"Everyone is gathered in the living room and I'll be serving dinner soon. Alright father?" Kasumi said seemingly to have forgotten the recent ruccus.
"Well... that went well." Jason said sitting back down.
Nabiki then walked into the living room, "Hello everyone I... who's he?" She asked pointing at the winged man sitting at the table.
Youkai stood up and took her hand. "Hello, my name is Jason, although you can call me Youkai."
"A... a demon?" Nabiki wondered.
Youkai nodded his head a few times. "Yes, yes I am, and you must Akane's sister Nabiki. It's a pleasure to meet you!"
Nabiki looked over Youkai's shoulder to the table worriedly. "What's going on here?"
"Ah, well you see, that's a rather long and complicated story which I am more than willing to tell to a young woman of your mental capacity." Youkai stated. "You see, I'm actually from another world, one where humans don't exist, and demons are everywhere. And in that world I am Jason Reaver. I accidentally got sent here during a teleportation incident so somehow I've bypassed the dimensional barrier. Now that I'm here, these lovely young people have agreed to help me fit in during my stay, however short or extented it may be."
Nabiki eyed Youkai with a critical eye. It was hard to tell if someone was lying when their eyes were only one color. "How do you plan to hide your eyes? Your wings? What's going to stop you from killing people now that you're here?"
Youkai smiled toothily, revealing rather nasty looking fangs, "Ah, all very good questions. I'll begin by this. Jason has keyed me in to these wonderful things called sunglasses. My wings I can easily hide them by shrinking them. And long ago my people lost their killer instinct because we'd already wiped the humans out in our world." Youkai explained. "Hells, all we remember about humans is that they walked upright like most of us, stank, lived meaningless lives, and died early deaths."
Nabiki's eyes half-closed themselves. "I see... could you let go of my hand now?"
"Hm?" Youkai hm'd and looked down at his hands. "Oh, sure." He said and let go.
Genma and Soun walked in then and both saw Youkai standing there infront of Nabiki. "A-a-a demon!"
"Ah! You must be Genma and Soun!" Youkai said cheerfully giving them a warm smile. "I'm glad to finally meet the man of the house!" He said taking Soun's hand and shaking it, "And Ranma's father." He said then shook Genma's hand. "I hope you have no qualms with my staying here for some time. Due to some rather bad luck I might be stuck here for some time and these lovely people here decided to help me fit in here in Japan."
"And... what is your name?" Soun asked slightly off guard.
"Well," Youkai began almost sheepishly. "My actual name is Jason, but you can just call me Youkai seeing as how it would cause lots of confusion around here."
"I... see..." Soun said feeling rather helpless. How can you say no to something that can disembowel you with little more than a thought?
"Ah! I see you're rather worried about me being here. Don't worry about it Mr. Tendo, you won't even know I'm here."
Just then Kasumi called out that dinner was ready and came out holding a large tray filled with fish, rice, and other delicious stuff. "Oh my, shouldn't you be wearing something more... decent?" Kasumi asked looking at Youkai.
The demon looked down at himself. "Ah. I see what you mean. I'll go grab a shirt and I'll be back." He said then ran up the stairs.
"And Jason, what happened to your hair? It was so nice when it was white." Kasumi commented.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, the color musta finally come out." Jason explained quickly to cover his confusion.
Youkai came back down the stairs and sat down between Nabiki and Kasumi. Soun, Genma and Kasumi were the only people who seemed to notice that the shirt(Which they also noted was one of Jasons, being that it had a red Maple Leaf on it) fit him perfectly. "Ah good, I wouldn't mind trying some human food for once in my life. Everyone back home will be jealous!" He said cheerfully and grabbed something of everything and put it on a plate.
Once again as usual Ranma and Genma were fighting for their food, Jason joined in the battle and found his plate rather lacking by the end of it. Ryoga on the other hand took the food gratefully, he didn't expect to get anything really.(Ryoga has pretty much taken a backseat by now hasn't he?)
Idle chatter was made over dinner. Nabiki offered for everyone to go down to the ice rink and Jason immediately piped up a "YES!!" which cost him most of his food. Youkai blinked his red eyes surprised. "How do you get an ice rink in Japan? It's slightly chilly here, but it's not cold." He stated.
"The usually just freeze it. And the room is kept rather cold." Akane explained.
Youkai gave an enlightened "Ah." and went back to eating.
"You seemed rather excited though Jason." Nabiki commented staring at him.
"Of course I am. I love skating! It doesn't get too cold in BC because we're on the pacific, so I only get to skate during the really cold months or whenever we visited family in Alberta. Down there it gets really cold even when the suns out so there's almost always ice rinks for skating." Jason explained happily.
"Are you any good?" Nabiki asked, seeing money heading her way.
Jason frowned, "I don't get to practice much. Even took some figure skating lessons once. MOM's idea really. But that's not important, when can we go?"
"Tomorrow if you like."
"YES!!"
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Alright, I'm gonna drop this off here because if I continue I'm gonna have'ta end it quick. Next chapter: Skating at the Speed of Jason.
I've noticed that I'm getting alot of support as compared to when I first started writing this. And it's those warm words of encouragement that make a person like me feel happy and make me write even more.
You people who don't review catching on yet?
I think I was a bit off about there being a point for Kodachi to get stuck on Jason, I said that it was for a major plot point. But frankly I ended up doing stuff in this chapter that I didn't mean to do until Cologne or at least Shampoo came into the story. So I say 'GOD DAMNIT'. The only thing that I can be happy about was that I managed to keep his biggest secret still secret.
I'm also going to adress a few questions posed to me about some stuff.
1: I will keep going, count on it.
2: I do plan to keep these guys within the bounds of Ranma. AKA, no one will reach DBZ levels. Just keep in mind though about the Yama and Umi-sen-ken techniques. I won't be going higher than those limits.
3: The skateboard is lying in Jason's gym bag most the time.
4: Jason happens to be one of those Canadians that walks out in -10 degree CELCIUS(for those who don't use metric that's 14 Farunheit) weather with only baggy jeans, a T-shirt, and a light vest and says "It's warm out." (Don't tell me this is impossible, I'm one of these people)
5: Why did I not go through the Rhythmic Gymnastics fight? Cause I didn't bloody well feel like it! The less writing about Kodachi the better! I think my brain is melting.
Chapter 6
Kodachi Instanity Kuno
All comments and criticisms would be welcome. Send all praise and flames to: Macleodrichard@hotmail.com be warned that if you flame me I probably won't care.
I won't write a disclaim cause I can't think of anything funny enough for it.
"I've saved my favorite group for last. The maniacs and crazy people, yeah, the ones who live out where the buses don't run. And I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people. A maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a bugs bunny suit at the time. So you can't put all of them away, y'know, ya gotta keep some of them around just for the entertainment. Like a guy who tells you the king of Sweden is using his penis as a radio transmitter to send anti-semitic lesbian meatloaf recipies to soupy sales at Marm and Hamlish. A guy like that you wanna give him his own radio show!" - George Carlin
Notes: [] Denotes the ye olde english language.
** Denotes signs, if there are any.
{} Denotes thought. All thought is conducted in the person native language, so I read someone else's mind, they better think in english.
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"A substitute?"
"Yes, I injured myself. This girl will take my place." Akane replied to Kodachi, pointing at Ranma. Jason had come to St. Bacchus, but he ran when he thought he saw Kodachi. Luckily the pressure point Jason had used only temporarily put Ranma to sleep.
"Ah yes. The pigtailed girl. We have met before have we not?" Kodachi said then held out her hand. "May the best girl win."
"Hold it." Akane said as she grabbed Kodachi's hand. Turning her palm upwards revealed the tacks inbetween her fingers.
"Oh, how did those tacks get inbetween my fingers?" Kodachi said wonderingly.
"Wow. Can't let your guard down for a minute around her." Jason said as he met Ranma and Akane in the change room.
"Hm? Where did these come from Jason?" Akane asked as she noticed a bouquet of roses lying on the desk.
"I dunno. I didn't notice them."
Akane picked up one of the roses and put it in the fish tank that was in the room. The fish rose to the top of the tank and seemed to be sleeping.
"I'll have to remember that trick. It's the second time she's used it." Jason commented.
"You said those roses weren't there before right?" Ranma asked.
Jason nodded his head. "Yeah, I didn't see them when I came in... which means..."
"Jason-sama!!" Kodachi cheered as she dropped down from the top of a group of lockers.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Jason screamed as he barreled through the door.
"You're sure this is St. Bacchus school for girls? Absolutely no doubt?"
"A... absolutely."
"I made it, I made it and I didn't get lost. This MUST be a turning point in my life. For the first time-" Ryoga was stalled in his lamenting as he heard a cowardly scream come from his right.
"SAAAAVVVEEE MEEEE!!!" Jason shouted as Kodachi jumped off the roof and tried to grab hold of Jason using her whip.
Ryoga reacted fast. Not just fast, SUPA FAST! In less than an instant he'd whipped a bandanna off his head, began to twirl it, and threw it with unerring accuracy.
The bandanna flew straight and true. Jason saw it coming and dived to the ground, he'd been crippled long enough! The bandanna flew over Jason, cutting the end of the ribbon off, then it came back, and cut more off the ribbon off, then again, and again, and again, until there was very little ribbon left.
Jason got off the ground and brushed himself off then looked at all the ribbon shards on the ground. He looked at Ryoga with wide eyes. "Ryoga, you've helped me for once!"
Obviously the words might have been better chosen as he didn't seem to happy about the comment. "Don't expect it to happen again."
"Aw come on Ryoga I didn't mean it like- AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Jason began apologetically then began to scream as Kodachi landed infront of him with another ribbon.
Jason's chances to run were dashed as Kodachi easily had the advantage of range. The ribbon lashed out and wrabbed around Jason's arms and upper body. He was trapped. Kodachi pulled him close and held out a bouquet of roses to his face. Jason tried to turn his face from the Black Roses of Certain Doom but to little avail as the cloud burst out and enveloped his face. He quickly began to cough and wheeze as he took in the horrible smell, then his body fell limp. "SOMEBODY HELP ME!!"
To Jason's happiness, sanity, and all around betterment something flashed infront of his face and cut the new ribbon in two and then something hit Kodachi on the head knocking her out. Jason wanted to say 'Ryoga! You saved me!' But it came out more like, "Mrph, hrp hrph mrph."
Ryoga stood straight over Jason and looked down on him. "That should make us even." He stated evenly and then waited for a response. "Are you even gonna say anything?" The only response he got was a loud strangled noise that Jason made. Not quite sure what to make of it Ryoga knelt down and unwrapped the ribbons from around Jason. "Now are you gonna talk to me?" Ryoga demanded annoyed.
Jason responded by twitching an arm. Ryoga did not look happy.
Ranma and Akane stood at their end of the arena. Kodachi was late, very late. Way too late. Five minutes late. "Due to the St. Bacchus schools absence of team members we have no choice but to award Furinkan High winner by default!" The judges finally said.
"That took long enough." Ranma muttered and got out of the ring. "Guess I should thank Jason for keeping her occupied. Weapons are cheap."
"Let's not dwell on it." Akane replied, she may have been happy that they won. But she had wanted to see Kodachi get punted around like a rag doll. Even if it was Ranma who was doing it.
Just as Ranma and Akane were about to reach the door Ryoga burst through. "That only took me one minute... It's a miracle!" He cried to himself.
Instantly both Ranma and Akane went into fighting stances and both noticed the large body slung over Ryoga's shoulder. "J-Jason!" Akane said and rushed over to Ryoga. Ryoga slid Jason off of his shoulder and into Akane's arms. "What did you do Ryoga?" Ranma demanded still in an offensive stance.
Ryoga snorted but stood still. "I saved him from a fate that I probably would never wish upon another person no matter how much I hated them." He said evenly.
"Huh?" Ranma replied confused.
"Can you move Jason?" Akane asked, now having propped him up against a wall.
"Rrrgh."
Shaking his head Ryoga began an explanation. "When I found him he was being chased by that Black Rose woman. She tied him up and almost managed to drag him away before I cut him loose and knocked her out."
"YOU WHAT?!" A bunch of people screamed. All eyes turned towards the mat in the middle of the arena as the cover flew off and a group of girls in leotards rose from under the fighting area. "You knocked out our leader just before a fight?! That's dirty and underhanded."
"So is attacking the opposing team before a match!! And hiding under the arena mat!!" The actual Furinkan Rythimic Gymnastics Team retorted from the stands.
The trio of true fighters all sweatdropped as the arena broke into an all out war. "Perhaps we can argue somewhere else?" Ryoga suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." Ranma agreed. He thought he'd seen a kettle of water lying around somewhere.
Quickly they retreated to the Furinkan changing room so that Ranma could get his clothes back and change back to his boy form while Ryoga explained in more detail what happened.
"So Kodachi drugged him?"
"Best guess I could come up with."
"The only person I can think of to take him to would be Dr. Tofu. But I'm not sure if even he can do anything about this." Akane muttered.
While the conversation continued, Jason's finger twitched slightly. Then it twitched again. Finally he managed to move both his arms. {Yes! YES! It's wearing off!} Jason had been trying to use a couple of the healing techniques he'd been learning from Tofu but he'd been unable to concentrate properly for some reason. But now they seemed to be working. His legs began to move from under him and he began to stand up straight, although sluggishly.
"Yeah. Dr. Tofu does seem to be the best choice, we should get him there now." Ranma agreed.
"A heh. Don't worry guys, I think it's passed through my system now." Jason said then stretched. {That's lasting stuff. I still feel stiff, and my body feels all weird again. Like it ain't mine.} The three Japanese citizens turned towards Jason then recoiled in surprise. "What? I'm not turning a weird color am I?" Jason asked worried. {It couldn't be that easy.}
"A Youkai?" Ryoga wondered aloud. "In the city?"
"Youkai?" Jason echoed looking left and right. "Where? I don't see one." He stated then crossed his arms across his chest. "Now the hell are you guys trying to pull on me? Youkai don't exist!" There was a long silence then. Ranma had moved into an attack stance a while ago, Akane had picked up a chair, and Ryoga had leveled his umbrella. "Uh, guys? It's me? Jason? The big white haired Canadian? Remember me?" He said and took a step forwards.
"Stay back!" Akane shouted, but Jason no longer seemed preoccupied with them.
Something felt weird when he took that one step, something just wasn't right... and that something felt like it was just above his ass. Slowly Jason looked over his shoulder down at his backside. Strangely enough, there was a black and white stripped tail sticking out from just above his belt. "[What the fuck?]" Jason muttered then looked down at his front. Half expecting seeing something TOTALLY out of place like a pair of breasts or maybe even a new head coming off his chest. Well, he was disappointed in that respect. All he did have was rather furry looking arms and clawed fingers. Oh, and he couldn't even see his knees. {Huh?!} He leaned down a little bit further to see that his knees now bent backwards like a quadrapeds do.
There was a knock at the door and Jason felt an ear on top of his head twitch, he reached up and felt it. It was very real, and very attached to his head. Feeling his teeth he also came across a rather sharp quartet of fangs in his mouth, two for each row of teeth. "[This... this ain't right.]"
"Is anyone still in there?" A voice called into the locker room from the outside.
"Yeah we're still in here? What is it?" Ryoga called out to the door.
"We thought we heard a shout in there."
"Oh! Don't worry about that, I was just a little angry about the match!" Akane called back. "I was hoping to see Kodachi lose in an embarrasing defeat!" She clarified.
They all waited a few seconds so that the people outside would leave. "I swear to god guys I don't know what's going on!" Jason explained quickly.
"I thought you hadn't ever gone to Jyusenkyo." Akane commented.
"Never. And it wasn't cold or hot water that did this anyways, last time I actually touched water was when I showered this morning." Jason replied looking down at his hands for a second then looked back up. "Uh... is something wrong Ranma? Aside from me?"
Ranma, in the back of the room, cowering against the wall, shook his head. "No... nothing at all... you just, kinda, sorta, maybe, look like a c-c-cat!"
"Y'know what? He's right. You kind of remind of one of those large felines you see in Africa and Asia. And you're growing taller Jason." Ryoga said analytically. After all, what did a Hibiki have to fear from an anthromorph?
Jason straightened his legs and looked up at the roof, he noted with some intrest how his nose seemed only a foot from the roof now. Looking back to his asian friends he did notice they seemed a bit smaller and lower than before. "Well this is just great! How am I supposed to get out of here like this?!" He muttered and scratched an itch on his side carefully.
Everyone looked around the room. Akane and Ryoga searching for something to throw over Jason. Ranma was looking for a place to run to, the way Jason's ears were changing to be more triangular was scary. "Wait, I think I might have an idea."
An hour later, at the Tendo Dojo.
"Great idea Akane. If only you'd remembered to check around the corner before telling me to go!"
"Hey! We got you out, and no one figured out who you were!"
"But everyone has a damn good idea! Either Ranma or me and Ranma is neither white nor a cat!" Jason shouted then calmed himself down quickly. "Ah don't worry about it. I shouldn't be taking this out on you." He amended then paused for a second. {Why am I suddenly being nice?} "This is only getting weirder the more I think on it."
"How so?"
"It's my body more than anything. I'm walking around like this. I shouldn't know how to use these legs at all. My senses are sharper, and all the intake is easily absorbed. I can even consciously move my tail however I want it to and that shouldn't be possible." Jason explained carefully. He then ruffled his hair frustrated. "And this itch is killing me!"
"Then stop scratching your head and scratch the itch!" Ryoga stated annoyed.
Jason didn't do anything immediately except for look at his new nails. The itch was bad... bad enough that if he did start scratching he might scratch hard enough to cut himself wide open before he noticed. "Rgh... could someone just get Dr. Tofu down here? He's the only guy that can help with this!"
"Being that he'll most definately meet Kasumi on the way in... no, he won't help you with this." Ranma replied from far behind Jason.
Everyone in the room sighed. "Guess I'll just have to think this out then." Jason muttered to himself and reached under his shirt. Quickly he drew his fingernails across his left side to relieve his itch. His eyes quickly widened as he caught on to what he just did and his shirt quickly stained. "[Ah shit!!]" he shouted and took the shirt off quickly so that it wouldn't get any worse. He pulled at the skin so that the cuts were more easily seen. "That's why I didn't scratch it Ryoga!"
Akane and Ryoga leaned close to get a better look at the cuts. "Those look deep Jason. Maybe we should try to get Dr. Tofu down here."
Jason waved them away. "Don't worry about it. As I've said, I've been taking lessons from Dr. Tofu. I can heal this easy." Jason said then closed his eyes and focused his slightly sharpened mind and his very focused senses. Directing the flow of Ki through his body. Something wasn't quite right though....
"C-c-c-cat!" Ranma cried from the back of the Dojo.
Akane and Ryoga looked up from the cuts on Jason's side to see a rather unusual sight going on above them. Inside a swirling cloud of bluish white energy there were two figure's fighting each other. One was a rather well defined feline human (It looked like Jason did now) made up totally of black energy, fighting with a slightly shorter just as dark, just as unusually distinguished human figure with pointed ears and blood red eyes. Despite the fact that both figures were totally black the bluish white energies swirling around them seemed to illuminate every feature perfectly so that every single detail could be seen in... well, perfect detail. The swirling cloud of Ki raised a powerful cold wind that caressed the room and everyone in it, and began spinning so fast that wind almost seemed to be pulling everyone in.
"Somethings... not... right...." Jason spoke in a whisper as the two black figures raged just overtop of him in what seemed to be a fight to the death.
"We've got to do something!" Ryoga shouted over the sound of the winds and leaning away from the raging forces.
"Like what?!" Akane shouted back. "We don't even know what's going on!"
"I... don't... know... what... to do...." Jason muttered to himself. "I... feel... so empty?"
The humanoid figure raised it's arms high above it's head, it's hands clenched together, and brought them down on the feline just as the feline rose with a powerful uppercut. Both figure's struck at the same time and both seemed to be momentarily stunned.
"Jason! Try to take control! Force it all under your command!" Ryoga shouted.
"I... can't.... It's too... unfamiliar." Jason mumbled. Then his eyes snapped open and he seemed to grasp hold of the situation with a clear mind. "[Holy shit!]" He shouted and stood up, putting his upper body completely into the cloud of energy. "Improvise..."
The cold winds died down instantly and the swirling display was gone. However, the two black figures were still there, standing on either side of Jason. Now though, almost nothing could be distinguished about either in anywhere near the quality it had once been. Quickly Jason backed away as the two figures began to battle again.
"Wh-what happened?" Akane asked bewildered, her hair and clothing a mess.
"I... I'm not too sure really. I suddenly woke up like from a dream and saw all this above me."
"Should we stop this?" Ryoga asked and took a ready stance.
"No. Hold on here, their forms are changing." Jason observed.
Slowly the fight changed form. As did the fighters. The feline one's body finally became overbalanced from the change and had to drop down on all fours and began to get itself some color. Whereas the red eyed one stayed upright but became more menacing in appearance and combat by gaining some less than human features, for example two large wings, and it also began getting itself some color.
"Uh... Ryoga? Do you have some extra pants by any chance?" Jason asked just as Akane began to turn away. The one with wings was still human, infact it bore an uncanny resemblance to Jason, and it apparently did not spawn from him with clothing.
Ryoga swiftly rummaged through his giant pack and tossed a pair of his loosest fitting pants to Jason, who in turn tossed them to the winged figure. "Don't interupt...." The winged figure began to shout until it saw just who threw the pants at him. The kitty also seemed to take notice of Jason as he stood on the sidelines. "I'm... we're...." The winged man seemed dumbstruck. "Out?"
"Mrrow?" The big white siberian tiger mrowed looking around at the Dojo's occupants.
The winged man quickly put the offered pants on, quickly discovering that they barely fit him. "Alright... I'm somewhat decent. You can dare to look at me now Akane."
Akane turned around and glared at the occupants in the middle of the room. "What are you two? And what are you doing here? Isn't that Neko-san?"
The winged man scratched his head. "Y'know what? I thought Jason would have asked all that first. But yeah...." He trailed off.
"Feel free to give us some form of enlightenment as to this situation at any time." Jason urged comically.
The winged man looked around the room. "Can I eat something first?"
Luckily as Jason saw it. Nabiki, Soun, and Genma were not at the Tendo residence at that time. So the only people who saw the winged man and the big tiger were him, Ranma, Akane, Ryoga, and Kasumi, who was kind enough to make a quick snack for the famished winged man with blood red eyes who preferred meat.
"Start talking." Jason said sitting down at the table as the winged man ate.
The winged man turned to the tiger first. "Go play with Kasumi." The tiger seemed to understand this and took no time at all to leave the room. "Now then.... Hm... how to explain this.... Well, they say the direct approach is the best, although I must wonder who 'they' is, so I'll start with this. I'm Jason's Demon Aspect."
"My WHAT?!"
"Oh come on! You guys haven't picked up on the eyes at ALL?! I'm a demon, a youkai, anything that represents evil but not total evil. Like devils." The demon said as it dug into some fish.
"Why is a part of me a demon?"
"Simple. Before you were born. Hell, before your parents met, your mom got together with a Youkai and made a pact with it. Thus giving all her sons demonic powers. I am your demonic powers."
"So Jason is a hanyou or something?" Ryoga piped up.
"No." Youkai-san stated pointing at Ryoga. "He is totally human, just with Youki."
Jason looked considerably angry now. "So... this is... MOM'S fault now is it?" His voice holding consideralbe danger to it.
The demon looked at Jason worriedly. "Leave it Jason, there are reasons. Don't any of you ask."
"Alright then, what happened to Jason when he was in the Dojo?" Ranma asked.
Youkai-san took a deep breath. "Due to a mixture of the Crazy Bitches poison and then trying to gather his Ki when it messed it all up, caused him to accidentally bring out Neko-sans transformation. Just not as powerful as it should be, so he didn't change as fast as he should. As for the raging battle? Jason tried using his Ki again while it was still distorted and I tried to repress the transformation causing a raging battle for control of Jason's Ki between me and Neko-san.... And how we're here now... I'm still working that part out."
"Uh... okay... and just what is Neko-san? Another part of me that MOM put in? And just what are we gonna call you?" Jason questioned.
"Just call me Youkai for now I suppose. I like the Japanese word better than demon. And as for Neko-san? Check that bite mark on your left side." Youkai-san said pointing at Jason's side.
Jason muttered something as he looked down at his exposed chest and saw that the scar on his side was now gone. "Wh-wha?"
"And your hair."
Everyone now noted that Jason's hair was a rather dark shade of brown, which Akane and Ranma recognised as his natural hair color. Ryoga didn't quite make that connection. "It's back to the way it was before... so?"
Youkai's head hit the table and made the fish and his plate rattle. When his head came back up his dark red eyes that had no pupils far as anyone could tell attempted to bore in Jason's skull. "Lycanthrope! Ly-can-thro-pe! He's a Were-tiger! Like a Were-wolf, but a feline instead of a canine. Figure it out genius! What the hell kind of tiger do you think bit you in the park a couple months ago!" Youkai explained annoyed.
Everyone was stunned to silence. Those dark eyes returned to their natural 'not trying to bore through your skull' state and seemed more relaxed. "Any other questions Jason? We don't know when this might be undone."
"I... I... uh... how the hell am I gonna explain this everyone else?" Jason wondered.
"Listen Jason. I know you're worried about what everyone is going to think about you so I promise you that I won't do anything to disturb your social life while I've got my own body."
Ranma and Ryoga's eyes narrowed. "You're a youkai, why should he trust you? Real youkai murder rape and pillage wherever they go." Ranma stated.
Once again Youkai's head hit the table. "You people... by the Nine Rings of Hell and the Thirteenth Floor! Not all youkai are evil as everyone thinks. You're just like Jason's MOM for screaming in pain. I'm gonna key you all, and Jason, in to something important." Youkai said and motioned for everyone to get in closer. "Jason's MOM thought that all youkai murder rape and pillage just as you do. And y'know what that got him?"
"A life full of beatings and general mistreatment that should have had her thrown in jail for life?" Jason finished.
"Well.... Yeah. Although the thing is I think you would have had to put up with that one way or the other. But you just got it worse than you would have had she not made the pact. The point was, she decided to give him a kind of trigger to really set him off at a moments notice. The best thing she could think of was, well, women." Youkai explained.
Jason's head fell into his hands as he thought of everything his MOM put him through. Beatings left and right, repeatedly taking him to Women's Lib meetings where some of the women proved to be just as chauvenistic as the men they hated so much. They certainly had no problem with helping her beat the crap out of him some more.
Akane seemed to amazed at all of this. "That's a horrible thing to say! Surely his mother can't be all that bad. No one could treat their children like that!" She protested.
"You don't know her." Both Jason and Youkai said in unison. "I shared 'all' of his beatings. Frankly her plan would have worked if not for the one time when Jason was ten years old-"
"Don't talk about that!" Jason cut off vehemantly. "Don't you ever tell anyone about that!"
"Alright." Youkai said, holding up his hands defensively. "I won't tell anyone that doesn't already know."
"ANYONE!"
"...okay."
"So... you're not evil then?" Ranma guessed once Jason and Youkai were quiet again.
The demon nodded his head slightly. "For the most part. I was driven to hate so badly that I just gave up on it at one point. Now I usually just sit in Jason's mind content to watch what he does and make subtle changes in there to make him a better person in the long run."
Jason looked even more angry than he did a second ago. "You mean-"
Youkai raised a hand to cut Jason off. "You remember Mary from last year? The woman you almost punched in the face cause she made a joke about you being gay? I'm the only reason she can still breathe through her nose." Jason quickly seemed to become ashamed at that. "Anyways, the key here is that I'm not all that bad, I'm more on the level of a human than a demon in terms of how evil I am."
"Even if you aren't evil or bad like you say you are. How are we supposed to convince anyone of that?" Akane demanded.
Youkai seemed to think of that for a few seconds, which drew on to a minute. "I'll think of something, if anyone does ask then just back me up."
"How are you gonna explain your appearance?" Jason wondered. He didn't need anyone thinking he was a bloody demon!
"As I said, I'll come up with something. Don't worry." Youkai reassured.
At that moment they heard the front door open and three people walk in. "We're home!" Nabiki called into the house.
"Oh My God!! Kasumi be careful! Daddy will save you!" Soun shouted almost right away.
Youkai smacked his forehead. "I totally forgot about Neko-san. No one else has seen him except us!" He said. "Ah well, I suppose Kasumi can handle that."
"Are you sure it's safe for Kasumi to be near Neko-san?"
Youkai waved his hand and shook his head. "No problem what-so-ever! He's harmless. As long as no one provokes him he won't be a problem."
"HYAH!" Soun shouted then a feline roar cried out.
"[Oh shit.]"
"Father! Leave Neko-san alone!" Kasumi admonished from the kitchen. "Don't you worry Neko-san, I won't let father hurt you."
"B-but?"
"Everyone is gathered in the living room and I'll be serving dinner soon. Alright father?" Kasumi said seemingly to have forgotten the recent ruccus.
"Well... that went well." Jason said sitting back down.
Nabiki then walked into the living room, "Hello everyone I... who's he?" She asked pointing at the winged man sitting at the table.
Youkai stood up and took her hand. "Hello, my name is Jason, although you can call me Youkai."
"A... a demon?" Nabiki wondered.
Youkai nodded his head a few times. "Yes, yes I am, and you must Akane's sister Nabiki. It's a pleasure to meet you!"
Nabiki looked over Youkai's shoulder to the table worriedly. "What's going on here?"
"Ah, well you see, that's a rather long and complicated story which I am more than willing to tell to a young woman of your mental capacity." Youkai stated. "You see, I'm actually from another world, one where humans don't exist, and demons are everywhere. And in that world I am Jason Reaver. I accidentally got sent here during a teleportation incident so somehow I've bypassed the dimensional barrier. Now that I'm here, these lovely young people have agreed to help me fit in during my stay, however short or extented it may be."
Nabiki eyed Youkai with a critical eye. It was hard to tell if someone was lying when their eyes were only one color. "How do you plan to hide your eyes? Your wings? What's going to stop you from killing people now that you're here?"
Youkai smiled toothily, revealing rather nasty looking fangs, "Ah, all very good questions. I'll begin by this. Jason has keyed me in to these wonderful things called sunglasses. My wings I can easily hide them by shrinking them. And long ago my people lost their killer instinct because we'd already wiped the humans out in our world." Youkai explained. "Hells, all we remember about humans is that they walked upright like most of us, stank, lived meaningless lives, and died early deaths."
Nabiki's eyes half-closed themselves. "I see... could you let go of my hand now?"
"Hm?" Youkai hm'd and looked down at his hands. "Oh, sure." He said and let go.
Genma and Soun walked in then and both saw Youkai standing there infront of Nabiki. "A-a-a demon!"
"Ah! You must be Genma and Soun!" Youkai said cheerfully giving them a warm smile. "I'm glad to finally meet the man of the house!" He said taking Soun's hand and shaking it, "And Ranma's father." He said then shook Genma's hand. "I hope you have no qualms with my staying here for some time. Due to some rather bad luck I might be stuck here for some time and these lovely people here decided to help me fit in here in Japan."
"And... what is your name?" Soun asked slightly off guard.
"Well," Youkai began almost sheepishly. "My actual name is Jason, but you can just call me Youkai seeing as how it would cause lots of confusion around here."
"I... see..." Soun said feeling rather helpless. How can you say no to something that can disembowel you with little more than a thought?
"Ah! I see you're rather worried about me being here. Don't worry about it Mr. Tendo, you won't even know I'm here."
Just then Kasumi called out that dinner was ready and came out holding a large tray filled with fish, rice, and other delicious stuff. "Oh my, shouldn't you be wearing something more... decent?" Kasumi asked looking at Youkai.
The demon looked down at himself. "Ah. I see what you mean. I'll go grab a shirt and I'll be back." He said then ran up the stairs.
"And Jason, what happened to your hair? It was so nice when it was white." Kasumi commented.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, the color musta finally come out." Jason explained quickly to cover his confusion.
Youkai came back down the stairs and sat down between Nabiki and Kasumi. Soun, Genma and Kasumi were the only people who seemed to notice that the shirt(Which they also noted was one of Jasons, being that it had a red Maple Leaf on it) fit him perfectly. "Ah good, I wouldn't mind trying some human food for once in my life. Everyone back home will be jealous!" He said cheerfully and grabbed something of everything and put it on a plate.
Once again as usual Ranma and Genma were fighting for their food, Jason joined in the battle and found his plate rather lacking by the end of it. Ryoga on the other hand took the food gratefully, he didn't expect to get anything really.(Ryoga has pretty much taken a backseat by now hasn't he?)
Idle chatter was made over dinner. Nabiki offered for everyone to go down to the ice rink and Jason immediately piped up a "YES!!" which cost him most of his food. Youkai blinked his red eyes surprised. "How do you get an ice rink in Japan? It's slightly chilly here, but it's not cold." He stated.
"The usually just freeze it. And the room is kept rather cold." Akane explained.
Youkai gave an enlightened "Ah." and went back to eating.
"You seemed rather excited though Jason." Nabiki commented staring at him.
"Of course I am. I love skating! It doesn't get too cold in BC because we're on the pacific, so I only get to skate during the really cold months or whenever we visited family in Alberta. Down there it gets really cold even when the suns out so there's almost always ice rinks for skating." Jason explained happily.
"Are you any good?" Nabiki asked, seeing money heading her way.
Jason frowned, "I don't get to practice much. Even took some figure skating lessons once. MOM's idea really. But that's not important, when can we go?"
"Tomorrow if you like."
"YES!!"
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Alright, I'm gonna drop this off here because if I continue I'm gonna have'ta end it quick. Next chapter: Skating at the Speed of Jason.
I've noticed that I'm getting alot of support as compared to when I first started writing this. And it's those warm words of encouragement that make a person like me feel happy and make me write even more.
You people who don't review catching on yet?
I think I was a bit off about there being a point for Kodachi to get stuck on Jason, I said that it was for a major plot point. But frankly I ended up doing stuff in this chapter that I didn't mean to do until Cologne or at least Shampoo came into the story. So I say 'GOD DAMNIT'. The only thing that I can be happy about was that I managed to keep his biggest secret still secret.
I'm also going to adress a few questions posed to me about some stuff.
1: I will keep going, count on it.
2: I do plan to keep these guys within the bounds of Ranma. AKA, no one will reach DBZ levels. Just keep in mind though about the Yama and Umi-sen-ken techniques. I won't be going higher than those limits.
3: The skateboard is lying in Jason's gym bag most the time.
4: Jason happens to be one of those Canadians that walks out in -10 degree CELCIUS(for those who don't use metric that's 14 Farunheit) weather with only baggy jeans, a T-shirt, and a light vest and says "It's warm out." (Don't tell me this is impossible, I'm one of these people)
5: Why did I not go through the Rhythmic Gymnastics fight? Cause I didn't bloody well feel like it! The less writing about Kodachi the better! I think my brain is melting.